December 2010
26 posts
Poetry is not a Luxury by Audre Lorde →
honeyedfire:healingsakina:
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas...
“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that...”
– Song of Solomon [Chapter 13] | Toni Morrison
the way clouds love a mountain
(via derica)
From the Paris Review interview with Jack Gilbert
GILBERT
If I’m writing well it comes to an end with an almost-audible click. When I started out I wouldn’t write a poem until I knew the first line and the last line and what it was about and what would make it a success. I was a tyrant and I was good at it. But the most important day in my career as a writer was when Linda said, Did you ever think of listening to your poems? And my poetry...
“We are the bees of the invisible world…
We perpetually gather the honey of the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via echolocate)
